The show is a bit slapdash this week since I have been burning the candle at both ends for the last two weeks. Work projects have had me pinned to the workstation from dawn to dusk and beyond. The last week I have been up at six and working well past midnight, so I am running on fumes. There are worse things than being busy, like having no work to do, but there are limits. I need a vacation.
At the start of the Covid panic I noticed an uptick in work requests. It made some sense as the lockdowns threw everything up in the air. We are long past that point in this area and in most areas. Even though lots of people are still working from home, which should be the new normal at this point. Despite a return to normalcy, my workload continues to rise suggesting other forces are at play.
One answer is the accelerating baby boomer retirement. Those old whites are being replaced by people who are differently abled. If you have seen the ads for the Google Career Certificate, you can see the problem. The moaning about the baby boomers always misses an essential point. There are lots of them doing essential work and when they are gone, there is not one to replace them.
Something else I notice is that the people who could be competent either have little interest or they are unprepared. Business has always struggled to find enough good people, but now it is acute. There are people who can do the work, but they do not want to do the work. It is one of the side effects of a transactional society. We cultivated a couple of generations to treat work like a Tinder date.
Whatever the reason, I find myself busier than at any time in my life, so something has to give and this week it is production quality. I literally turned the mic on, started talking, played it back and hit send. Usually, I have a few hours of prep, a couple of hours to record and couple hours to edit. Sadly, I noticed no difference in the audio quality which means I have been wasting time the last few years.
The topic this week is one I will return to when time permits. We really do need a dissident framework through which to interpret the news. The Trump raid is a good example of the need for new tools. We are being hit with a firehose full of government lies, media lies, Trump opportunism and grifter hot takes. The goal for dissident politics is to reach a point where none of this is effective.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Multivariate Analysis
- The Error of Causality
- Contradictions and Paradoxes
- Counterintuitive
- Closing Music (Lyrics) (Audio)
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Enjoyable podcast on mental errors, which is not an easy subject to extemporize on. Well done. I guess paradox means counterintuitive which means “gee that’s not what you’d think.” Pretty flower is poisonous. Paradoxical statements are meant to be ear-catching. Such as the common, “Football helmets actually make football less safe.” Makes for a flashy headline, but it’s hardly any serious kind of paradox. False paradox / Incorrect: No-helmet football is safer. True / Correct: No helmet football is not football. No-helmet football being safer, only holds conversation interest or meaning if the goal is safety. But the main goal… Read more »
“paradox” doesn’t mean what you think it does.
I know there’s a more serious paradox. I’m not talking about that one.
When I die, I want to go to paradox.
Z at start. Paraphrasing: “These podcasts are harder than you think. Time consuming. I’m very busy with other things. I’m getting burnt out.” Unless because of paid subscriptions, he’s “contractually” obligated to do a weekly podcast, why doesn’t he just take it easier on himself and do a bi-weekly podcast? None of us want Z to feel overwhelmed or burnt out.
100% This. If I were you Z, I would cut these to 2 / month or 1/month. You aren’t on anyone’s payroll here and I know you have a ‘day job’ so it seems absurd to push yourself to burn out.
do you guys like my metaphor that the tribe is like the serial killer who nonetheless can compartmentalize and have a normal life with his wife and kids? I feel that during the 20th century, that’s what they were. Like they had a lot of good contributions in pop culture in the united states. The atrocities they were committing were in other parts of the world (see Europe 1914-1945). At some point either during the Clinton/Bush era, they stopped that compartmentalizing and started taking it out on the wife and kids (America). Think Blackrock, a lot of Biden’s cabinet or… Read more »
The best way to understand Simpson (the statistician)’s paradox is by an example taken from the Simpsons (the cartoon TV show). Which by the way from my experience is the most frequent way it is actually taught these days. There are two medical practitioners in the series, “Dr.” Nick and Dr. Hilbert. Let’s say that during the control period, Dr. Hilbert has performed 90 open heart surgeries of which 70 successful (success rate 77%), and 10 band aid removals, all successful (100%). On the other hand, Dr. Nick has performed 10 open heart surgeries, 2 successful (20%), and 81 out… Read more »
Far from being ” incoherent”, I think it was an excellent podcast. This is especially so if you had put in as much work hours at your normal job as you claim. Pat yourself on the back, this is an accomplishment as if a university student dropped acid, tripped his brains out, stayed awake all night and still aced an exam the next morning. Speaking purely hypothetically of course. 😁Specifically I have not heard a better analysis of why democracy doesn’t scale. Pity, but I doubt that we will be returning to wealthy white landowners being the only voters anytime… Read more »
do you know what the time point is where zman talks about democracy not scaling? i listened to the entire podcast but i may have been distracted when that part came up 😛
You can learn a lot about a person from how they responds to issues that aren’t in the current Republican pièce de résistance of wedge issues. It used to be immigration before the GOP cynically weaponized it, a little further back and some brave souls would stand up to civil rights. Now it’s Confederate symbols that are a window to the soul. The twerp in Florida is a nasty iconoclastic zealot of destroying all things Confederate. The ultrazionist snake particularly enjoys attacking “racists” by using the Confederacy as a proxy. DeSantis is a true conservative, anything identitarian for the wrong… Read more »
It would be Bush 3.0.
[shudder]
You are living in an alternate reality if you think DeSantis would be more CivNat Republican than Trump. Trump is Boomer CivNat to the bone. The PLATINUM PLAN?! 500B for darkies because… yeah.
You have 2 choices, a rock, and a hard place. There is no true ‘DR’ candidate and given how much the establishment is sh-tting itself over milquetoast Trump I doubt there ever will be either.
I do think so. DeSantis is a Conservative, Trump to his credit is not. He is more open minded. He’s not enamored by Conservatism’s incorrect dogmas on humanity and society. Trump gives GOP party apparatchiks headaches, DeSantis is the true company man, GOPPPPP. These are all good things for Trump’s case. You can’t bargain with Conservatives. They work for their own ends and they are very good at it. Look at the Germans, French, or English whose post war politics have been dominated by Conservative parties. A Sarko is worse than a Hollande, a Bush the original worse than a… Read more »
What I think we need is “our guys” support system. A hiring board, vetting board (that they really are “our guys” and are stable and worth hiring), list of “our guys” lawyers, “our guys” authors and creators, businesses, and the like. We are going to have to cut out the corporate and be supportive of “our guys” all the way. And we need to think about being concealed as to our true identity. Perhaps the stink of the crank, and the crackpot could work. “Bigfoot Research Societies” where people hang out talking about Bigfoot. Cranks and crackpots are universally repellent… Read more »
Rather than crankery, normal things. A hiking group, hobbies, church groups, Meetups.com
Perhaps a new group as a whole. Restaurants etc have meeting rooms for groups who order some chow and chit chat. And/or…
Just some folks who just happen to start attending an ongoing group and do a sub meeting before / after / to the side. This is attractive as it comes with a responsibility-free covert structured meeting place. One can invite a potential joinees to this neutral group and the subgroup can feel them out without leaking much info.
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I am not even sure that one could do this with the level of electronic surveillance in place.
Car number plate tracking, electronic transactions, internal CCTV in stores, public cameras, phones, doorbell cameras etc etc. You would just need one thread and then start tracing through contacts and nearness retrospectively in the stored data.
This is not the same as earlier totalitarian states, where unless you directly observed it, the manpower needs were huge to do this.
The past does not disappear in the panopticon, and is searchable for years after.
There’s a huge paradox here, though. While modern technology has empowered the current totalitarians to a degree Stalin never could have dreamed, these totalitarians also are functionally retarded. Whether the latter cancels out the former, we will be able to observe directly. Based on the Ukraine situation, and I realize that is a mere grift meant to generate profits, the stupidity seems to outweigh the tech. They may have a smarter set for domestic operations although recent history indicates otherwise.
Perhaps. The reason Ukraine is different it seems to me is that the globohomo does not control all sides of the equation for a change. So for once there is someone they can’t steamroll using the state force + courts + media + corporate power is not effective. They are trying to do it with massive sanctions, farcical controlled news 24/7, all the puppet EU govts, the UN. NGOs and threatening the rest of the world if they do not go along with it in the same way they do internally. The lesson is you need to be able to… Read more »
I would say one other thing in relation to my original comment. You don’t need lots of smart people to do contact tracing through integrated electronic records. You just need a few smart people to do the heavy lifting to solve the problem and then provide simple interfaces to enable the retards to use the system. They don’t need to understand graph theory to map a network of relationships, the software does that for them. They just get names etc out the other end to harass. Its more that the past is becoming a prison you can never escape, and… Read more »
@trumpton: All good points. The totalitarians certainly think they have everything domestically in the bag, and they may. Asymmetry does cut both ways, though, so it probably will be decided by the prevalence of opposition and/or violence. This is such unchartered waters for us in the ruins of the West it is hard to be certain, although the valid observation about Islamism–“they only have to be successful once”–probably will not be noted aloud any longer although it remains true. What we have seen here so far are failed kamikaze missions. That may be the extent of the opposition, too. Globohomo,… Read more »
Increased data collection ability is both a blessing and a curse. Sure, it raises the possibility for surveillance. But downsides? Plenty. In the first place, all that data has to be stored somewhere. Absent a legal requirement it be archived, a lot of that data is of limited shelf life. Yes, store video can be accessed for crimes and sometimes is. But I doubt my local Wal*Mart has video images stored from 2018. And even if the collection is perfect, just what does it prove? For example, consider this contrived example: Layabout is a well-known dissident right activist and widely… Read more »
Why do you try and conflate the point with a straw man I did not state? It is not real time omniscience, which is currently impossible on a country wide scale (although quite doable for smaller numbers of individuals flagged for monitoring). Its being able to re-open the past months and years after the fact for an individual. It is about the storage of all this data enables anyone with the tools to look back over time with targeted intent at individual plus their contacts when they decide you need intimidating and so do your friends or contacts. The point… Read more »
It was a good show today – describing in multiple ways how a particular outcome isn’t necessarily the result of some apparently obvious event or series of events, but potentially a random combination of all of them – that is further almost unknowable. Don’t tell that to the leftards though…
There’s a shortage of good workers because they don’t exist. Ask anybody under 40 how his high school class ended up. To start, many of them are probably dead from overdoses, or junkies, depending on the socio-economic status. I know that in my personal experience very few White kids went into STEM, accounting, tech, or any field that pays well. Most of them “followed their passion” (encouraged by teachers and guidance counsellors) and ended up wasting 4 years on an arts degree. Many of them have very marginal “careers” now and are mostly miserable. Lots can still live at home… Read more »
B125. True, folks don’t want to work as hard—White or other. However, you are perhaps unintentionally leaving the impression that “everyone” need only work hard in university, as in matriculate and graduation in STEM, then they’ll rake it ($$$) in. This presumes a level of quality of the student population not in evidence. I don’t know how it is or was in Canada, only the USA. However, the cohorts being talked about are matriculating during an era where everyone is being encouraged to attend university or some sort of post secondary academic instruction. As pointed out before, we now have… Read more »
Agree 100%. It’s a combination of several factors (not clear which are causes and which effects): the boom in government funding of higher education beginning (?) with the GI bill and expanding to free tuition in some States and of course, student loans. To a large degree (pun fortuitous 🙂 ) this turned universities into big businesses, responding to government subsidy. Couple this with “civil rights” which inevitably led to quotas, lax standards for minorities, etc. Since “a degree” was that holy grail to a better job (Yes, in the before time) the menu of available degrees grew exponentially. There… Read more »
One of the curious category errors of progressivism is the failure to understand that one cannot expect vast improvements in human “material” just because science and engineering have produced such in the realm of inanimate objects. I have trouble seeing why this wasn’t obvious because when someone claims “We’re going to make a 3000% improvement in X” I start asking things like “have the materials that go into X been radically improved?”, “has the factory that makes X had a massive boost in quality control?”, “has the scientific understanding of X greatly improved?”. Since the answers to all those questions… Read more »
Perhaps still waiting for the New Soviet Man.
They all work for the government now. that should make you feel better.
Wow, just wow. The above additional comments are may I read this blog. Excellent observations, all!
Not all, but it isn’t as flippant as it sounds, either.
Putting aside the labor metrics, I’ve never seen the usefulness yet of a comment containing the phrase “math guys.” It reminds me of football players in college who waxed philosophical and without irony on their current skillful preparation for finance jobs (read: sales) by writing 2,500 word papers about slavery and the Holocaust. Anyone who respects the process and output of U.S. diverse meritocratic higher ed even if well remunerated for that piety now is just one of the luckier idiots around.
I prefer “dudes with the 20 pound brains” myself. Longer, but more inclusive.
Take this comment as you will.
“To start, many of them are probably dead from overdoses, or junkies, depending on the socio-economic status.”
I’ve had several schoolmates OD on Fentanyl, and another who was in my Cub Scout den drank himself to death a few months ago.
The majority of STEM majors don’t get jobs in STEM fields. The failure rate of STEM degrees might exceed 50% too. And just because a job is a STEM job doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good job.
And this is before the issue of vaishyas. They will dispossess you even if you have enough melanin or a vagina, even/especially a fake vagina.
One needs to look at each field separately. For example, one who majors in Math, does not usually get a “math” job, but the areas of employment where such advanced skills are in high demand are numerous. Employers know this and would love to get these folk and train them in specific applications of “math” as fits the company’s needs. Basically, STEM is short hand for a grouping of what are/were known to be rigorous courses on study. Students majoring in this general grouping have many choices in occupations as they have proven their worth intellectually. Black Studies majors, not… Read more »
What is the closing song? It’s hauntingly beautiful.
it’s antler music.
It’s linked above. At first I thought German. Then maybe Gaelic. I guess I’ve never actually heard Swedish before. It’s nice.
Links in the post. It is Swedish. The lyrics are amazing.
“Questions for Father” indeed. Wonderful song, but very sad- dunno if YouTube understands Swedish, but if it did you’d be banned!
I’m assuming the group is “Svenska Ungdom”; which is also the name of a political group in Finland that promotes the interests of the Swedish speaking minority.
Z, do you know if there’s a connection?
Thank you. I just heard it on the podcast, then flipped straight to the comments.
Here’s the Google translation: ……… Questions for Father ……… Do you remember the time that I myself have never seen When the people were happy, when the people were one So tell me now, father, how do you feel today When you sit in the slag of what’s left? When you were growing up, tell me what it was like Was a girl something that was freely given to? Did you walk down the street and listen a little Without hearing a word you understood? Have you ever had to walk home alone? Since you were robbed and beaten by… Read more »
You guys should definitively have to listen to metal music, I hear swedish and norwegian and finnish and german and russian and ukrainian every day, I could name you literally almost a hundred thousand bands that are singing in swedish. Warrior style, also muses, the sky and the kin, life or machinations, ancient style or very modern. don’t listen randomly, listen and search by a country at a time, go the nationalist way! You’ll see that people don’t compose the same way from one country to another.. Norwegians(skaldics) are authoritative and the most original, swedes(svenskas) they love to follow in… Read more »
wow…
(filler, comment too short)
Ah, yeah, that’s really true. Hadn’t thought about it much, but most of the heavy metal CDs I’ve bought in the last 25 years were done by Nordic or Slavic bands. I guess they’ve been keeping metal alive all this time.
That song really displeases me, it’s a whining dirge for soyboys.
All his brilliant analyses set aside, I am surprised by the lack of virility in the Zman’s outro music choices.
“Something else I notice is that the people who could be competent either have little interest or they are unprepared. Business has always struggled to find enough good people, but now it is acute. There are people who can do the work, but they do not want to do the work.” Interesting topic/observation today. I’ve mentioned this story before, but it seems appropriate once again. Close relative is in technical management, having come up through the ranks. His firm is large and multinational. One day, at a family get together, I was riding my “diminishing population IQ” hobby horse. Florida… Read more »
at least there isn’t one named “Din-do”. 😛
Well played and accurate.! 😛
I’ve not broached race, as the level of understanding/acceptance is not right at this time. I’ve said this before, “baby steps”. It is everything to break the ingrained understanding/acceptance of equality/equity such is our brain washing of his generation. Toss race in too suddenly and you lose your audience. I also suspect the engineering division he runs here is lily White. Certainly the European divisions overseas are White and we have discussed that because he is struck by and remarks upon other races and their culture. It makes for good conversation since I’ve been to Europe, but not Taiwan and… Read more »
It needs to be said. Military organizations throughout history have used the boot camp model to create effective fighting units, and they do this because it works. They bring in a disparate gaggle of raw recruits of every size, shape, and other thing; and then mold them into tools of war using hardship, repetition, and firm messaging backed by harsh consequences for stepping out of line. This is a tried & true method of enforced behavioral change, and ultimately it helps keep you alive with the shit hits the fan in battle. If, or when, our society collapses, the likelihood… Read more »
The psychological conditioning in boot camp is meant to make the soldier obey orders unquestioningly.
Just look at the Ukrainian army to see why that’s not doing the individual soldier much good. Their commander orders them to defend a position against Russian artillery that outranges them, then the commander takes off because he doesn’t want to get exploded. The soldiers that still have any brains left also run away at the first opportunity. The soldiers all chock full of honor and duty get to have an artillery shell violently expel all that honor and duty into a thin paste.
Yes to this. All true, particularly as it applies to Ukraine. And I am a relentless advocate of smarter, not harder. For this reason, I advise against brave young men joining ad hoc militias and going toe-to-toe with the jackboots just because follow-the-leader. My point above is that robustness has become extinct in suburbia and this must change if good men are to survive the initial maelstrom of collapse and be a force for change when the smoke clears. We need a way to get normie off the couch before its too late.
i think you are too optimistic regarding the usefulness of most soy males. they really are innately unfit for anything kinetic. the first thing i would do, is shoot the ones next to me and take their ammo and rations, then use their bodies like sandbags.
Your on a roll Karl.
This could be one of the best/funniest/most practical posts ever.
You are on the right track, unfortunately. In any life and death situation, if one is not of the right mindset, he is a danger to the group. If he panics, it spreads like a plague among the men in the field. This has been known for ages. I learned this with women as well. No offense to the many stalwart women in this group, but I’ve never had a dangerous situation occur with a woman who has done anything of value to correct/ameliorate the situation. Screaming, shaking, or a catatonic freeze in fear is not a positive reaction to… Read more »
IIRC, the IRS postings for open jobs (87K new hires) listed “a willingness to use force” as one of the requirements. And the feds bought a million rounds for the IRS. My guess is that wanting a dissident news framework is pretty much useless, that would have mattered in 1991. Now it is survival. Trump is obviously now going to be arrested, perp-walked (in his underwear), and then sent to Iran or someplace like the French King sending Joan to the English. Same motive. Probably send some SEALs too to scare them — active and retired both I think. The… Read more »
The IRS job requirement said not only “force” but “deadly force.” The talking point given to the normie right was something like, “What’s the problem? The IRS has always had investigators. You’d know that if you weren’t such a loser. You *wish* you could get audited.” Oddly, even Elon Musk reinforced that message. If my feed is representative, “Trump stole nuclear secrets for Russia” is forever unshakably lodged in the minds of all professional-class media consumers. (They still think Rittenhouse shot up a crowd of black kids.) A few have demanded to see Trump executed on TV. They almost always… Read more »
Giving aids to boys in the 80s was a major part of the agenda. Remember, when AIDS initially appeared on the scene and was traced back to gay men, they protested the bans on giving blood and even being screened for their sexual status before donating. This was before serologists could really detect it, and so many children (and unwitting adults) were given blood transfusions from HIV positive men. Rather than apologizing, the gay lobby (already nascent then) pointed at the children and heteros they had murdered and said, “See, not only gay people can get it. It’s not just… Read more »
Almost like stabbing your dong violently into the single dirtiest part of the human body with the highest concentration of bacteria mixed with blood is not such a great idea, who could have imagined?! The normalization of buttsecs is really a thing to behold and is the pinnacle of porno j00 propaganda. So much so that young libtard women are now embracing this trend fully because they are as dumb as a bag of hammers. When they go to actually do the deed they are horrified by the painful, sh-tty, smelly, bloody result. There are manifold posts of this type… Read more »
saw an article where some poor misguided young woman ended up with a lifetime colostomy bag because she engaged in this practice. god damn, how difficult is it to not use parts of your body in a way they weren’t designed for??
No objections to your observation, but perhaps a ray of hope. IIRC, the “gayness” of AIDS was fought tooth and nail at the highest levels of government and media. With Monkey pox, I’ve heard from the start of the disease being 99% gay men and even the CDC prescribes precaution for the gay community wrt random unprotected sex with unknown partners.
It’s a step in the right direction. Unless you refuse to believe your own eyes and train yourself to be an uncritical thinker, you can’t help but realize what a scourge and abomination male homosexuality is.
Ass fuckinl ain’t good ,but its the jewjab that’s makin them sick, their immune systems are slim to none. Dead men walking.
It’s worth noting that HIV/AIDS is what got Fauci established in his little fiefdom. This is well chronicled in the RFK Jr. book. Heck, even I recall some of the controversies (e.g. restrictions on research or lack of access to repurposed drugs) from back in the 1980s. Not because I’m gay, but because I lived near DC and even then it was locally controversial in the tail gunner community.
Your X-Files theory for today… Waay back, when AIDS first hit the news, I remember conversations with knowledgeable faculty speculating on a possibility that the AIDS virus might mutate to be airborne, like the common cold Of course, that event would most likely have ended most all human life by now, since the disease had a long, asymptomatic “gestation” period before your immune system collapsed and opportunistic infections took hold. However, we are now seeing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 variants may be affecting the immune system to the detriment of its normal effectiveness. There are even experimental treatment protocols involving HIV… Read more »
I remember being mentally and morally beaten with the Ryan White story for several years straight from the mid-80s to early 90s.
As for Trump, it looks like the regime is trying to use the nuclear documents angle to try and run a Rosenberg treason smear on Trump.
That would also provide cover for an arrest gone wrong or a show trial followed by a high-profile capital punishment.
I can hear Biden reading the teleprompter now.
“Folks, he was a traitor who gave nuclear secrets to the Russians. What do you expect?”
Don’t forget Pedro Zamora on MTV’s Real World: San Francisco. They practically added a halo to him in post-production. In the, ahem, real world, he was just another sodomite dying of AIDS because he engaged in rampant anal sex with other degenerates as a teenager.
“My bet: The story of Trump flipping out and trying to wrest control of his limo from the SS was planted so the story of Trump doing the same when he’s arrested—so unfortunately he had to be killed—would feel right. It won’t happen on TV. They’ll just lie.” Quite possible. But I will admit to surprise at the ferocious reaction to this latest march down the road to hardcore totalitarianism. Assuming calculations had not been made as to how many of theirs* theoretically could die if/when they do such a thing, they most certainly are running those numbers now. I’ve… Read more »
Not in the mood for blackpills this morning.
We are going to win this — excuse me, *our* — thing, eventually.
If they thought they could get away with it now, they would, but they’re not.
One hope might be that they think it’s in the bag, or in the bag enough, and make their move when they can still be stopped.
(One other thing is, as I’ve mentioned before, is once they decide to break the vase rather than just crapping in it, there’s no going back, and for as much as they’ve done their best to “score” the break lines in it (“everybody versus YT”) that’s no guarantee that’s how it will look when it hits the floor.)
oh you were doing so good, and now it’s back to the swamp fever dreams 🙁
The dissident framework should be the same as that used against the west. The early vectors of attack were education and media. These are the formation battlegounds as, unlike the trusting idiots of yesteryear, the current NPCs are not going to allow a reverse takeover of the institutions they now own. So. Homeschooling first and voucher education by the states, which if it is to work as a change must bypass public education completely and expand out to intentional dissident/ideological organized schooling much as religious schools do now. This is probably the most effective starvation mechanism in the long term.… Read more »
I’m not surprised you get a lot of pushback when you advocate for electing 100% Democrats to Congress. That’s because it’s such a stupid idea. Do you honestly believe this whole thing stops because people will suddenly realize the system is illegitimate? Look who’s in the White House. Most people know he was not legitimately elected, but that hasn’t stopped him from going pedal to the metal with the far left agenda, even beyond Obama‘s wildest dreams. The left doesn’t care if they have a legitimate right to power or not. The only thing that matters to them is power… Read more »
Since I started the show with a twenty minute bit on multivariate analysis, it is safe to assume that I do not think any one thing is the magic solution. In fact, the point is not the composition of Congress that matters here. For such a thing to happen would require a large majority of our people to conclude the system is hopelessly broken. That is what precipitates the revolution.
The first politician that really recognizes the system is hopeless to reform would not waste their time running for National office. That opportunity is gone to effect change.
The smart thing would be to take 2 or more states fully (governor/legislative) and build a coalition with other states and start a real secession movement for a confederacy.
There’s also a lot that can be done short of, and in advance of, actual secession. Think of all those 84000 shiny new IRS agents stroking their 2″ dicks thinking about “using deadly force” during audits. Now think about a state making it clear to them that they won’t be getting help from local law enforcement or might even find the local cops waiting in ambush for them.
To be fair, them locking up Trump may get there faster. There were a few talking heads on MSNBC advocating executing Trump. If only. Imagine if they did that? We’d have tens of millions of our people at once realizing the system is illegitimate. As dissidents, we could ask for no greater gift.
Reality check. Normie is going to go the polls on Nov 8th and vote R because its the easiest thing he can do to persuade himself that he’s making a difference. And there will be a RINO wave that takes control of the House, and maybe also the Senate. Probability is over 90% unless Biden cancels the election. And that just means that there will be legislative deadlock for two years and faux Congressional hearings that accomplish nothing other than provide a vehicle for venting about high prices and escalating tyranny. The admonition to not vote harder will largely fall… Read more »
Don’t worry: in 2024, after the R’s take the house, the senate and the executive, THEN things will happen.
You know, just like the last time the R’s controlled the house, the senate and the executive. Obamacare was gutted, the Departments of Energy and Education were disbanded, large multinational corporations were reigned in. It was a glorious time.
No 1 can vote their way out of slavery, ZOG goes or we go. Once the fake money shits the bed…we’re gonna find out,
Work is bullshit. As a Gen Xer, back in the 1980s when I entered the workforce, Boomers had locked up all the jobs that hadn’t been offshored or automated. You couldn’t get a decent job if you were willing to kill for it. Like a lot of others, I kept going to grad school because there wasn’t any real alternative. But the Boomers had locked up all the education jobs, too. I started working part-time at a community college in 1998 after a full-time guy retired. I stayed until 2015… they NEVER filled his position. Same story at another college… Read more »
I definitely get where you are coming from And it does sometimes beg the question as it pertains to the griller-conn boooomer cohort, but if you hate the Dems so much, why do you keep working and in turn feeding them your tax dollars? At some point, if you believe this fight is real, then quit the scene and watch them go belly up in DC. And if it must before it gets to that, let them come begging for us to come back to work. Get some concessions out of it, dammit. Quit being such tools. I know, easier… Read more »
Look, who says you have to work? If you can survive without being a parasite, then please do so and enjoy life. If on the other hand, you promote living off of social benefits, paid for by those working, then that’s another story.
I am not brave enough to adjust my current life style, and it doesn’t matter much since I’m retired. But I still remember as a student living a reasonably fun life on minimum wage jobs and shared apartments. But I never remember a time of not working, just balancing life and work a bit better.
I perform work, but I do it for myself, not somebody else. I spent the last two days pulling an engine out of a 4×4 pickup truck, I am going to rebuild it rather than pay $60,000 plus $10,000 over MSRP for a new one. And in order to buy a $60-70k truck you need to earn $100k, you only get to spend $60 after the government takes FICA, income tax, state income tax and sales tax. I on the other hand will have a truck with a new engine for under $5k. We live in the “Mafia economy” —… Read more »
You remind me of my father, who when I was much younger once stated between jobs—“I’ll always have a job!” He was unfazed by economic downturns. He worked with his hands, was skilled, and a consummate professional at his craft.
He was right, he always had a job and when he died had his own business with no one to report to or please other than his clients—who were never in short supply.
I feel for anyone who isn’t a shitlib that has to work these days. The bullshit one has to put up with even in mid-sized companies is intolerable. I couldn’t do it. That said, I have 4 well-raised, intelligent, White, millennial nephews who all have high paying jobs and are steadily climbing that greasy ladder. Being a lefty friendly competent normie who can role with the incessant “woke” battering ram is what it takes. Even the most egregious companies recognize that not all of their employees can be set decorations. On another topic, is it just me or does it… Read more »
Did you really think retail was the way to go?
It was convenient at the time, easy, and indoors in winter. I didn’t plan on staying there long anyway, but the bullshit at even a corporate auto parts store was ridiculous.
jeebus, do you want some cheese with that whine? you are responsible for your shitty career, and no one else. you must be a ton of fun at family get togethers “I could have been someone, instead of a bum, which is what i am!!”.
Not a bum at all, always doing something. My strategy has always been to bank what my wife and I earn, and do EVERYTHING for myself. I have never hired a painter or a mechanic or a landscaper. I have saved hundreds of thousands over my life by not paying obscene money for vehicles or real estate. I don’t drink at bars, gamble, or go to football games. Totally financially solvent, zero debt, house paid for, no car payment. Rather competent at a number of things but have zero tolerance for bullshit or stupidity. Seems to me that the way… Read more »
I hear ya. While I’ve never held myself out as a hard worker 🙂 I did give it a couple decades’ try. Working, at least in government and corporate, basically sucks. Not everyone gets to retire in his early 40s, but I jumped at the chance as soon as it came. Food for thought: Even a moderate retirement income may well “pay” better than a quite higher salary. Why? Simple: because a worker pays far more in taxes than a retiree. If you have full health care (I get the Marketplace full subsidy) that is a 25 to 33% equivalent… Read more »
I appreciate your perspective.
“We cultivated a couple of generations to treat work like a Tinder date.” Gotta disagree with ya on this one Zman. Large companies show no loyalty to employees these days. Say a guy starts at the entry level, which in most large corps is perhaps customer service. He or she busts their butt, takes more calls then everyone else, works weekends when asked, so on and so on. You watch as people who do less but are more “popular” get promoted, eventually you do get moved to a different job, and guess what you’re still working with those who were… Read more »
And a lot of those managers are boomers or Gen X. Not a knock on generations, its the system.
The Boomer generation is also the Countercultural generation. They have much for which to answer.
I do not disagree. Corporate culture is as much to blame as elite culture. In private business, as in privately owned companies, this is not how things are done. That is where this problem is acute. They want to reward people on merit, but the people coming in are conditioned to get ahead though other means or simply punch the clock.
If you know of any small biz that rewards a desire to learn and hard work pass it on to me 😉
“If you know of any small biz that rewards a desire to learn and hard work pass it on to me 😉”
Trades. Electrician is the easiest to get into I think.
If you’re above average, in 5 years you can work your own business
[Caution: Tasteless rayciss joke ahead!]
It’s another day in the local multi-culti elementary class. Today Teacher is asking the children to share with the class what their daddies do for a living.
Susie says: “My dad is a baker. He makes bread and cookies. B-A-K-E-R.”
“Very good Susie. How about you, Tyrone?” says teacher.
“My dad be electrician. He put in wiring, lights and shit. E-L-E-K. Naw….A-L-E-C….”
“Never mind, Tyrone. We’ll try later. Vinnie, what does your father do?”
“My dad is a bookie. B-O-O-K-I-E. And if he were here, he’d give you 5-to-1 odds that nigger can’t spell ‘electrician.'”
I think there is no disagreement there. The kids (meaning early 40s and younger now, so lol) treat their jobs like a tinder date: purely transactional, I gets mine or ill just ghost; pure zero sum grabblerism. Pretty true IMHO. I’m in the inbetween area of white collar and silk collar, and ppl will quit and just not show up on Monday, jump jobs every few months, ask for raises or ill quit every couple months, etc. Because we got it on the front side: 2-3 years exp required for entry level job nonsense, “preemptive” pay cuts when covid hit… Read more »
Jobs ARE “purely transactional.” Work is about one thing: making money, not loyalty toward your employer or co-workers. If I’m not getting paid, I don’t just show up anyway.
Capitalist employers treat employees as “purely transactional” when they close the factory or lay you off a week before Christmas, why shouldn’t you treat them the same way?
If it was fun, they wouldn’t call it “work.”
Corporate culture is of a piece with elite culture.
This happened to me while I worked at what was Readers Digest a little over thirty years ago. for three years I came in early, stayed late occasionally, gave up countless Saturdays, worked every holiday except Christmas Day. Then for President’s Day of ’94 myself and some friends decided to head off to Killington, VT for some skiing. I asked my senior supervisor for the day off three weeks in advance and you would have thought I had asked him for a pound of flesh. “You’re one of my most reliable people, I already assumed you would be here working,… Read more »
Despite whatever flaws the boomers had, they did actually have a decent work ethic. GenX and the older Millennials (those born in early to mid 80’s) are generally good too. I’m having my doubts about those born after 1987 or so.
Part of it is growing up in a world that teaches you to be useless, because it thinks you’re useless. Why give it your energy?
There is the entitlement mentality, which I’d hope is an immature expression of that sentiment. Hope lol.
I’ve been hard on boomers, but post ‘20 I’m more sympathetic. There’s some narcissism baked into that cake, but they also really didn’t realize the depth of it. Starting to believe them. Most of the boomers I know are taking it hard these days.
“Tyranny of low expectations” is not only for the ghetto kids*. You have a point.
But so does Steve, a few comments above yours. For a lot of folks, there is simply no reward to busting your ass just to make your boss’s boss look good.
*There is also the social problem that some folks are, in fact, useless. In great measure, many chronic issues, not only in the workplace, is because we’ve told the useless that they had some value, and coerce the rest into playing along with the charade — or else.
When I started my business and entertained ideas of expansion, my general experience was that anyone born before ’72 was going to have a decent to excellent work ethic. Anyone born after ’82 wasn’t going to have a work ethic at all. Between ’72 and ’82 was a real crapshoot. People like to blame boomers for their kids being so terrible, but I think two big social shifts that boomers didn’t really control was the consolidation of family businesses and farms into giant corporate entities (effectively ending de facto teen apprenticeships) and a major shift in public education from practical… Read more »
Well said, and I believe you have discerned the truth to it Drew.
i can do math in my head too :). before cash registers went digital, and told the cashier the correct change, i used to calculate the correct change; if the cashier gave me too much, i kept it; if too little, i mentioned the mistake. over the years the delta added up 😛
Could you elaborate on how/what you were taught? I’d be interested in seeing if there is anything I might have missed with my own kids.
I was basically taught just math, grammar and Latin for the first 5-6 years of education. Math required lots of basic memorization (flash card drills), grammar started with lots of memorization, particularly with spelling (and a special focus on homonyms), then moved to diagraming sentences. Latin didn’t really take for me, but that was mostly due to my parents not being able to afford literature written in Latin. However, it made taking French and Spanish easier in high school. Most of what I know about working with tools was self-taught from work manuals and repair manuals. Hope this helps.
I don’t know about the big cities or the big multinationals, and how they are still hiring, but at least the competent worker shortage will end the diversity hires. There will still be diversity hires, but at least the sheer need of competent workers will balance the anti-white hiring practices. At least I hope this is the case.
FWIW the company I work for has gotten leaner and whiter post covid. Can’t say it’s a policy, but we just made it through the lockdowns, and I imagine that has re-focused management on efficiency and competency.
I’ve said I think things will work out as the pain moves up the socioeconomic ladder, and hopefully that’s proof of concept.
Or, never letting a crisis go to waste, it could be used to increase it and provide more racially exclusive training and education (e.g. poor whites and whites in general need not apply for government funded and corporate donation based job training). I’ve heard Coursera is already doing this. It will probably also be used as a bigger stick to pound the increase immigration drum.
We will see how it plays out.
A Dissident’s Guide to Deciphering the News Probably there is (or should be) a more comprehensive guide, but here are some old rules of thumb: 1. Assume they are lying. Believe, or at least consider, the exact opposite. For example: “The vaccines are safe and effective.” They were none of those, not even “vaccine” by the accepted definition. 2. What is the elephant in the room? What relevant aspects are NOT being discussed? Viz: if you’re reading coverage of events in Ukraine, you should be aware that at best you are getting one side’s view. More likely, much of it… Read more »
4. Whatever a leftist accuses you of you can bet your life he’s doing. A good example would be : “Trumpitler is a tyrant” as Pedo Joe raids Trumps home with thirty+ guys carrying sub machine guns.
Sadly, I noticed no difference in the audio quality which means I have been wasting time the last few years.
—Sorry, I probably should have told you sooner then. When you relate stories about people who email you about that kind of thing I automatically think of some busy-body with less than nothing to do.
I agree. I noticed no difference in audio quality either. It’s always sounded great to me.
“I noticed no difference in audio quality either” Well that’s because you never got to hear the unedited stuff early on.
I’m sure it was necessary in the earlier years and it’s not surprising that he’s got better after a few hundred under his belt. This might be one of the things he can be a bit less obsessive about.
Almost certainly the case. I do a lot of music mixing, and early on, post was a real hassle. There was so much to improve on, and as little as I understood at the time, the problems were obvious.
But as I got better at recording, getting it right at the source, I found there was less and less to do afterwards. And, again, that’s with music. Spoken word is much more forgiving.
I get what you’re saying Z and it is true as far as it goes – yeah, eating right and exercizing right and going to bed on time and the health stuff pays dividends and there are several factors in it. But folks can do all that and still come up with high blood pressure. My father in law carried no fat, worked out and ran on a treadmill into his 70s and still struggled with high blood pressure. It was genetic. If you have terminal cancer, no amount of lifestyle changes will change the outcome. If there were no… Read more »
I have high blood pressure and the only thing that cures it is me playing tennis routinely for a few hours three or four times a week every week
Basically I have to tire myself out like a dog, and it takes a lot because I have a puppy energy. I just have high energy. And I’m 55.
When I stop playing my pressure goes through the roof
It’s just the way I was made, because otherwise I do all the right things as far as diet.
Ah, high BP. Drug companies favorite sales gimmick. When I started to go to the doctor again, he said I was high average and to watch it. I had my discussion with him wrt treating the numbers, rather than the pathology. Then within a few months, the medical authorities *lowered* the BP threshold for high BP, and viola, 60+% of Americans had “high” BP.
I’m not denying high BP is not a potential health issue, but really, when half the country is pronounced sick… I smell a Pharma rat in the kitchen.
If I was a school kid today I would have been drugged up to the max to calm me down.
I don’t think they even have drugs for my level of spazziness. Maybe horse tranquilizer
I recently (age 60) started on BP med Although I’ve been very skeptical of the medical field since Covid hit, when my primary prescribed Paxlovid for me in June, that really opened my eyes to how “captured” the entire field has become. (I declined — wisely I think — to try an experimental drug that wasn’t even appropriat for my case.) As do many seniors, I am now prescribed meds for blood pressure but also cholesterol and a few other issues. I have on my “to do” list to review just how necessary as well as effective these may be.… Read more »
My response is to speak with your doctor and ask what the pathology is that you are trying to prevent, then look for indications of that pathology via diagnostic means. For example, abnormal hardening of the arteries is detectable via CAT scan and of course some hardening is “normal” as we age. Further, all such medications have studies behind them which compute their efficacy. So for example, you may have a 1 in a thousand chance of stroke without the medication, but a 1 in 2,000 chance with it. Big Pharma will only tout the relative risk reduction (50%) not… Read more »
Your points are well made. Since my medical care is basically at zero cost to me, I want to not rock the boat too much. I suspect my current MD is more of a technician, but still has not struck out save the Paxlovid Rx and I give her a walk on that one since it was (I believe) the only “approved” treatment. Your BP med example is a good one. I would in fact take the bet if the drug in question had zero adverse effects. Or more realistically, if it were a well-researched drug and its adverse effect… Read more »
“when I see the clowns, perverts, and morons that are our leaders staggering and capering about ”
See my comment above, its not just in the top positions. The system promotes those that will kiss the ring and parrot what they want, not the capable. Easiest explanation for the situation we find ourselves in.
As redesigned from heritage America, the system also limits the influence of, pushes out, and even bars entry to those that deny its dogma.
This is why planning a counter Long March through Western institutions is a waste of time.
All of those institutions have been redesigned to prevent any such effort.
wasn’t Zman just using the healthy changes story as an example of a multi-variable problem? and not as direct advice? please correct me if i have this wrong…
This is correct. My health advice is limited to, “Life is short. Make the most of your time.”
How come Mr. Z man are you so resistant to the concept of a deep state? …When evidence of it is so overwhelming.
We can quibble on the semantics of the exact definition but we know what deep state means.
“Deep State” gives the impression of someone or some cabal being in charge with some master plan when the evidence points to the opposite. They filter for like minded people who believe in the same themes, but a hive-mind still isn’t very deep.
Evil Sandmich: an inefficient deep state but deep state nonetheless.
8 billion people + natural natural disasters is going to gum up any plans and the brightest minds. The Soros reflexivity observation is that the individual is not as predictable as the mass of people. The Soros investment is push self-reinforcing trends. ie – give BIPOC persons tacit legal immunity and criminalize or at least stigmatize the criticism and noticing of their actual anti-social behaviors while predicting future white extremism response. When it comes to rearchitecting the global economy to eat bugs and own nothing, it’s not a trivial matter. But, we don’t have any reason to doubt there is… Read more »
You are. He was. But the example of blood pressure, or high cholesterol, highlights another problem that has plagued modern medicine and other sciences as well: the distinction between correlation and causation. The fact is that high blood pressure or high cholesterol are not diseases themselves. No one dies from having these elevated clinical markers. But people who die often have them; and they can be lowered pharmacologically. But just as there are studies that relate morbidity and mortality to high blood pressure or high cholesterol; there are studies which show that treatment with drugs doesn’t necessarily cause measurable risk… Read more »
Maus “The fact is that high blood pressure or high cholesterol are not diseases themselves.”
Yeah My doc keeps noticing that my lipoprotiens are a little high. Well thats gonna happen when 60% of your calories come from fat, right?
About 8 years ago my cardiologist prescribed Atorvastatin for high cholesterol and Ramapril for HBP. He also emphasized diet and exercize. Since I’ve gotten on the cardiologist’s regime, all of my numbers have improved to the point my GP said I’ve got the BP of a 20-year-old and the heart of a 20-year-old. (I’m 55.) If I’d continued as before, I might well be dead by this point.
Not all physicians are mindless drones of the Power Structure or in cahoots with Big Pharma. But, yes, some are.
Worse yet, that advice doesn’t serve the interests of someone who wants to sell you something.
[Playing Devil’s Advocate] You are correct of course, but consider it from the average doctor’s point of view. Of course for many chronic conditions, the optimal solutions would be moderation, eat right, exercise, avoid known harmful activities. And MDs often recommend those even if it’s mostly lip service. The truth is that relatively few patients will be motivated to avoid those problems or cease and desist once they’ve become established patterns. As such, the best the MD can do is manage the patient’s conditions that will inevitably develop.
Sure Karl, I was simply trying to do the same thing Z did – but in reverse. I have a better than middling understanding of stats as does our esteemed blog host. Lying with statistics is a piece of cake – our mass media does it all the time. The true believers accept it because – statistical science!!!! And gawd knows… they effing LOVE science! If Z were right, and the dissidents are only noticing the statistical outliers and anomalies… well, we would see all kinds of contradicting evidence to the contrary of Dissident ideology. But… instead we get games… Read more »
As a retired boomer I’ve seen this play out in real life. My replacement was an early stage millennial that lasted one year. He was replaced by a mid-stage millennial that lasted all of 8 months.By the end of the second year 30% of the customers in my old territory were lost to competition. I was contacted by the company to see if I was interested in coming out of retirement to stop the bleeding. No way was I doing that!
Companies if they actually want to survive are going to have to start taking medieval type apprentices at 8-12 in order to bypass the intentional mind destruction performed in public education.
Although by the time they are grown up there might not be a country left for them to operate in.
My MIC firm has recently begun something like this with summer interns.
HR actively keeps in touch with good interns and they are given priority for further internships and hiring upon graduation.
At the high school level they do outreach via volunteers that help teams of kids entering robotics competitions. I’m not sure how tightly they try to recruit at that level.
I imagine similar things are happening across the MIC, if not the larger corporate world.
Are they recruiting for competence or diversity?
These days things are very tilted towards the DIE side.
They seem to target a lot of young white women. The massive push to import as many Puerto Ricans as possible has abated in recent years.
anyone who is still working, but can afford not to, is throwing their lives away. just pouring precious time down the toilet…
Depends.
Lots of people need the structure of going to a place of work and interacting with coworkers and customers; at least some of the time.
Most retired people don’t know what to do with themselves after a few vacations, get fat, and die.
Yeah, that’s a problem. For many oldsters work *is* life. I had that fear leaving the university. What will I do? But as it turned out, there was not a single day I regretted being out of work, never bored. Hell, I thought I’d grow lazy and fat and sleep in all morning and vegetate.
Never happened. Hell, I lost weight (am lighter than in HS) and in better shape. Get up with the sun, get to bed earlier. I guess “work” in the university is not much to live for. 😉
good for you compsci. i am still figuring out what i want to do with all the time i have now, but give thanks every morning that i don’t have to work anymore.
Karl, if you give thanks for not having to work anymore, then you have probably done the one thing that will definitely extend your remaining life.
Soul sucking jobs, kill. I remember many a Sunday evening with a pain/upsetness from the pit of my stomach keeping me awake. Took awhile, but I finally realized it was that aspect of being back in the office Monday causing it. It just wasn’t fun anymore.
I don’t disagree with your sentiment. I retired at 55, believing I’d saved enough for a frugal bit satisfying post-work life. But I didn’t plan for the jump in inflation, where the CPI at greater than 9% p.a. still understates reality, particularly food and gasoline. While the world of work seems to have become even cloudier and less tolerable in the past few years, the dearth of competent workers is a silver lining if I should need to reenter the workforce and top off my savings as a counter-inflationary measure. But before I consider such an unwelcome fix, I’ll put… Read more »
karl: Also depends on how you determine “can afford not to.” My husband is working not only to pay off our new property and get us settled up there, but also to provide our sons with some sort of financial foundation. And for the time being at least, although fedgov takes an appalling chunk of his paycheck, his salary and bonuses the past few years represent his highest earning years and we are putting that money to use. Paying off debts, stocking tangible goods, setting up to live on our rural property comfortably and debt free. The end goal, of… Read more »
You all and I are in same situation, taking the money and paying off everything to set up for the future. I have about 6-12 months left. And although sometimes I regretted becoming a parent at so young an age, now I am only 55 and have done my duty and kids are full grown. Youngest is 25 in December. I. AM. DONE. I have to see my tennis court and fruit tree plantings through to completion, but then it’s wide open and wife and I are going to party in Europe until the money runs out and/or we get… Read more »
Lets hope there is still a Europe left by the time you get round to it.
Falcone: Best of luck to you, but we have different plans. We were fortunate enough to travel fairly extensively when were younger. Nowadays we refuse to fly (covid restrictions, diversity, etc.). We wish Europe the best, but they have their own fight and our lives and deaths are/will be here. Our age and background preclude us being the vanguard of anything, but we hope to enjoy some time largely free of diversity and perhaps provide a safe haven, of sorts, for our children and a few dear friends.
sounds like a good plan. i genuinely hope he makes it to the finish line :).
no man is promised tomorrow…
….unless they enjoy what they do.
“The goal for dissident politics is to reach a point where none of this is effective.”
Yes!
We something else even more important. We need a platform of goals and a method to achieve them. In other words we need to get our weight forward and come up with a set of tactics and strategies that are effective.
Everything is downstream of media control.
So although Trump’s half assed grifter platform sort of identifies the key lever, its not going to be it.
A non-co-opted media is going to be struggle to keep alive in the face of state oppression and myriad of attack vectors in a legal/financial sense and would probably need to be run from outside the country to survive.
Maybe the Ruskies could do a Radio Free America from offshore with stories of people still eating and driving around in the eastern prosperity sphere , unlike the poor bastards behind the green curtain.
the smart move for trump would be to seek asylum in russia, and do what you say, broadcast the truth of AINO far and wide. of course he won’t and will end up epsteined instead.
You think Trump would also get the govt to fake his death and relocate to Israel?
knowing israelis as i do (they are a genuinely shitty people) that is no prize.
trumpton: Such an easily imaginable scenario today, yet if you had proposed such a mere 25 years ago I would have said you were nuts. Keeping up with reality is a full-time job these days, where there is almost no room for true comedy or satire. Perhaps the radio show ought to be called the Diabolica Commedia.
I have long maintained that using a church as our vehicle is probably the best route to take. It’s tax deductible, there are built-in legal benefits and protections, but more importantly it takes something bigger than any of us to get people inspired and motivated, and a good weaving of scripture in with policy positions is a tough nut to crack for our opponents. And I also think, and I know this rubs people the wrong way, but a clear and enunciated position in opposition to a foreign tribe having a hold over our lives is integral. Plus they are… Read more »
Do you honestly see that being feasible? Take CTH (very religious oriented). All the stories are variations on Garland, Elias and Kain use Rheinhold and rosenstein to entrap Trump and the FBI to persecute heritage Americans while goldfield and bronstein write fake stories about it. The comments are endless variations on “its just like the Nazis did to the jews”. No mention of the Bolshevik ethnics taking over Russia and killing and persecuting millions of Christian Russians, or the obvious parallels to that scenario they are actually living in. The lack of awareness is staggering and if someone points out… Read more »
Yes I think it is feasible, especially if times get tough I have always believed that America is one great preacher away from fixing its ways. Just someone with a powerful enough personality to lead to a type of spiritual rebirth. But at this point, and again I dont want to ruffle feathers, but if times get tough, you have a big bagel sitting right here in front of everyone who can be turned into the bad guy, and if people are suffering, all niceties go out the window. It may impolite to say so, but it would take very… Read more »
trumpton: Not to mention almost every church in America was quick to close down for ‘public safety’ during the scamdemic. And plenty of the nice White ladies in the pews were virulently advocating that all who would not conform to The Science be sent to camps.
As you note, everyone still labels any police state action as notsees or Gestapo, rather than Bolsheviks or NKVD. Yet another iteration of who/whom, and the average conservatard or patriotard or militia right still considers noticing a sin. “They shall not divide us” is the cry of the soon-to-be dead civnat.
Its amazing in some ways that the conditioning will lead them to the defense of the same people stamping on their face/
They are the christian Russians and the same bolshevik playbook is happening now, bordering on exterminating them and still they can’t see it.
The power of the media must be smashed.
Yes, that is a very big problem with CTH. I do get food information there, but the unaddressed elephant in the room is discouraging. 3g4me reported being banned after raising the problems with the “diversity”, and that ain’t good at all. When any discussion of the Tribe and the “diversity” is off the table a priori, well, good luck with sussing out why your analysis seems to consistently come up short. It is actually okay to be white, idiots, particularly if you want to see what has gone drastically wrong with your beloved Republic. After all who was the Posterity… Read more »
Oops, good, and not food. Fat thumb strikes again.
A good idea, Falcone. For some of us who otherwise unlikely to ever darken the doorstep of a ch- ch- chu-, the building with the the funny plus sign on its roof 😀 some of those benefits are also available to non-religious organizations (e.g. tax exemption). Obviously it couldn’t claim religious exemptions, but freedom from even some regulation is nothing to be sneezed at. Secular (DR) activity at a church: nothing would forbid guests for discussion groups or other non-worship activity*, if the faithful can bring themselves to allow that some of the Godless sinners may, in fact, have values… Read more »
Ben, I get it.
But you are already motivated and smart enough to see the church as simply a vehicle. Motivating and inspiring others who may not be so inclined, that’s who we need, the foot soldiers if you will. Just a solid mass of Christians who have God at their back, they become a force to be reckoned with. But it has to be spiritual, because this is in fact a spiritual battle. You already have that spirit. We need to get it into others via sermons, teachings, brotherhood and fellowship.
There is nothing religious about most of them.
It’s one arrow in a quiver, but the tax-free status is not going to last very long. There are many in the hive who are openly calling for the removal of the tax exempt status of churches to be removed, should they fail to do things such as teach sodomy to toddlers and allow Ace & Gary to get married in Saint Pats. That asshole George Takei said two years ago (regarding the teachings in Christian Schools) “These people should no longer be allowed to hide their bigotry behind their so-called religious doctrine.” Give it another five years and the… Read more »
Actually, were I in power, I would take away their tax exempt status. “But wait, there’s more!” I would take away EVERYBODY’s tax exempt status, as well as exemption from the laws that apply to other organizations. For example, the local synagogue should have no exemption from civil rights laws that at present allow them to deny a job to an otherwise qualified man just because he’s an avowed Anti-Semite. My point is simply that in a sane world there would be freedom of religion which (to me) is an instance of freedom of association and thus no one would… Read more »
Here’s my favorite paradox: “There are threee thingss wrong with this sentence.” What are the three things wrong with this sentence? Well, the word “three” is misspelled, as is the word “things.” That’s two things wrong with the sentence. What’s the third thing? The third thing wrong with the sentence is the sentence itself. The statement “There are three things wrong with this sentence,” is wrong, because there are only two mistakes in the sentence. And yet the misstated assertion, by being the third thing wrong with the sentence, nullifies its own wrongness. Since the statement, “There are three things… Read more »
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I don’t know.
Because “threee” is not actually the word “three”
We are just assuming it is because it looks and sounds like it, in a sense an optical illusion, but the word “threee” could also be a homonym with a different meaning than 3. There and their.
So “threee” has to be defined. It could be another way of saying “some”
Or am I missing the point lol
joeyjünger: I am copying and sharing your last paragraph. Thanks for that brilliant mental picture.
It’s like the rule that to every rule there is an exception.
Baby Boomer’s leaving the workforce is going to effect a lot of companies and not in a good way. Just this week I have dealt with a company that used to have top notch customer service, I was promised a essential item to be sent overnight and I was given the ticket number on Monday with delivery due Tuesday instead I am due to get the item today after hassling with them and no one who seemed to know the status of my ticket. This never used to happen with this company but this sort of thing is happening all… Read more »
It is the revenge of the boomer. I would love to work… but I flat out refuse to be treated like crap by 20-something girls or worse – the pakies, chinks, and niggers. I’ll have to do their work for them and take the heat when they screw the pooch.
Being semi retired means I don’t have to use terms like “differently abled”.
If I didn’t have to put up with shite like that, I’d be as hard at it as our esteemed blog host…
in memoriam for the boomers (myself included:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ChfmIkgNE&ab_channel=RadioBrazilRock
a song by the 13th Floor Elevators…
thank Juan, Shaniqua, and the one remaining quality worker who retires next week. To be replaced by a Karen wannabe.
It’s good in the sense that it means less tax money to Washington Love them or hate them, or indifferent, but boomers and their work ethic and sheer numbers are what fed the beast to its current state. And they keep working. I get it though, they want to be comfortable in retirement and have some extra spending money, and sitting around with nothing to do is very hard for some guys. But it’s also white normie-con boomers who are the biggest cohort in opposition to the Dems — yet they keep generating tax revenue which is the tool used… Read more »
G Lordon Giddy: Called USAA the other day and literally got a Laquisha on the phone (after having to listen to the nice White pre-recorded voice message repeating all the available options in Spanish). Went to the bank to get docs notarized and dealt with a moderately capable actual African whose notarized signature was a single squiggle. There is no such thing as a simple task or errand anymore; everything is burdened by diversity and its inherent conflict and incompetence.
Yep, I can confirm—had to get my drivers license renewed two days ago. Got a letter in the mail saying, “renew license online”, “quick and easy” the letter said. I was intrigued. How do they know it’s me? How do they obtain a current photo? Inquiring minds want to know about this latest innovation in government “service”. I attempted to log in. Well after about an hour trying to create an account and having my picture from computer scanned for verification, rejected, then put into “suspension” for 30 minutes (security, don’t you know) I was told I needed to visit… Read more »
man, my part of Florida is so not like that. i won’t day dealing with the DMV here was fun, but it was pleasant and efficient. the online part is messed up that way though…
Putting all previous podcasts aside, this podcast was informative, multifaceted, and very interesting. Not missing the news roundup. Thanks Z
So true, it was a nice break from the news.
And the closing song is so beautiful. If I wasn’t added to a list for canceling netflix years ago, I’m definitely on one now for searching those powerful lyrics.
Amazing song, thanks.
IMO De Santis has screwed the pooch on this Trump raid. Hiding in the reeds with the rest of the GOP. another do-nothing-when-it-counts politician. not that i was planning to vote for him (or anyone else)…
To his credit, Anglin has been vociferous in warning people about DeSantis.
Anglin has excellent instincts.
Yeah, based on his performance the last few months, I’d have thought he’d have been front and center with a fed government denouncing news conference. Same old, same old…
So you think he was in on it?
Most of my Florida people are telling me I’m crazy to even suggest it
i think he is playing it safe, and letting the feds take trump out for him. the raid was in his state for crying out loud, he should have made a strong statement right away, just on general principles. if he had played it smart, he could have parlayed it into some unstoppable momentum. but he didn’t. like i said, i wasn’t going to vote for him before, and still won’t, so no change in status quo.
No, since nobody trusts anyone else, so there isn’t much of a chance of cooperation even if Florida Man was open to playing ball with the Feeb. What might be happening is Florida Man might be waiting quietly for the results of the midterms before making his next move. Whichever faction of the Regime comes out on top makes a difference on the options open to him. Note that if the Vichy Right gains “control” of the “Congress” it does not mean that Florida Man has allies there-it comes down to which personalities, factions, and affinities have formal power and… Read more »
He’s dealing with armed feds, not Disney groomers. I prefer Desantis takes his time to come up with a measured response, instead of running his mouth and ultimately doing nothing like Trump. Time will tell.
That’s a good point
I’m not there in Florida, but is he coming off as scared? Or more precisely, coming off as rattled?
That’s what it appears to me from afar, or at least possibly so, but I don’t want to hijack the board on this topic.
“I’m not there in Florida, but is he coming off as scared? Or more precisely, coming off as rattled?” I’m not there so I don’t know, either, but DeSantis SHOULD be afraid. While the immediate target of this totalitarian shitshow, which surprisingly has not gone down well with the public, is Trump, it also is a message to DeSantis and whoever that all power rests in the National Security State, deal with it. The only outright secession the National Security State would not use force to put down would have been in California and so forth if Trump had been… Read more »
And that is the rub. Trump is all theater as he never had any force to back up his bluster, so its just usual media play out and he is treated as such. However, when the pressure gets to real state vs fed force who is really going to push back if it means actual confrontation? This is especially true as the borg does not have a reverse gear (as Russia and China will attest) and just keep pressing the boot down harder even if you are pushing up with a bayonet. They just expect you will give in before… Read more »
I could see it both ways, but yeah if his management of the situation went sideways then he’d either be looking at being sent to the gulag, or dragging Florida into secession (which, he probably doesn’t have quite enough of the “friends” of that sort yet that would be required)..
Isn’t there a lot of federal funding DC could mess with if DeSantis actively opposed them?
Maybe he wants to get that figured out and how he can minimize any impacts before making moves.
Getting federal funding rug-pulled and potentially reducing the quality of life in Florida seems like a good way to lose support in the gubernatorial race.
Florida is one of the few states that could make a go of it alone easily without the Feds. Between near-year round growing, oil rights (disallowed now), tourism, trade ports, etc. they could generate the revenue they needed without the Federal handcuffs.
He busy making flight reservations to Israel. Give the guy a break
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-ne-desantis-trum-fbi-raid-mar-a-lago-20220809-wn4dzd6ao5el7bmn3es4nlvaca-story.html
Ron DeSantis
@RonDeSantisFL
The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.